Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Swainson's Hawks migrate 10,000 kms or so to winter in Argentina. It takes them roughly two months to fly down there, averaging 200 kms a day.During breeding season, eats mammals, birds, and reptiles. The rest of
the year it eats insects, especially grasshoppers and dragonflies.

During 1995-96, heavy pesticide use in Argentina led to thousands of the deaths these hawks.

Swainson's Hawks gather in
huge flocks to make the migratory flight - it is a stunning sight that I have been fortunate enough to see a couple of times.

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Friday, May 9, 2014

I guess it's about time I piled up the dry sticks, wadded a bit of paper in there and rekindled this little old blog....

I actually went out birding yesterday. I mean, getting out of my car and walking for hours in parks filled with singing birds. It was nice. Really nice.

Many Yellow-rumped and Orange-crowned Warblers here at the moment. We aren't in the mass warbler migration route farther east. We get a few stragglers, certainly anything is possible in the trees along the river.

We're to have another lovely day before yet another cold front moves in. I have a ton of things to do around the place, but I'm going to desert home and blindcat and go off to look for birds.